12 April 2025

25 March 2025 yaʔKaŋkoŋ (holding granddaughter Tey), 1995 I first met taʔKaŋkoŋ and yaʔKaŋkoŋ (above) back in 1995. I had started...

by Lye Tuck-Po Recently, I visited the field and captured numerous photos. I drew inspiration from my favorite photographer, Kai...

by Lye Tuck-Po I posted the following links for a (virtual) presentation at Wofford College. 1.     Lar gibbon: Mother and child...

by Lye Tuck-Po 23/1/24 I guess I've been following in the footsteps of Kirk and Karen Endicott , ever since 1993 when I found myself...

by Lye Tuck-Po 10/1/24 Batek taduʔ is the mountain nibung palm, Oncosperma horridum or, in Malay, bayas. There are a lot growing by the...

by Lye Tuck-Po 7/1/24 Outside Taman Negara national park, Pahang, Malaysia, August 14, 1999: Cangkay is opening up the trunk of a...

by Lye Tuck-Po 18/12/2023

by Lye Tuck-Po 15/12/23 Originally posted in my old blog, on March 14 2009 03:15:00 AM It's been a long day of intensive work. I must...

by Lye Tuck-Po 14/12/12 I'm happy to report that Peaceful Societies: Alternatives to Violence and War by the late Bruce Bonta came out in...

by Lye Tuck-Po 12/12/23 Had a great time. I'm still slightly shaken from the trip home -- having arrived at 3 am! Got up my usual time...

by Lye Tuck-Po 4/12/23 Secondary forests are important for gibbon reproduction, if food plants remain & the canopy is unbroken. We (Batek...

by Lye Tuck-Po 9/11/23 A fieldwork recollection: Late in September 1998, I was at the Batek settlement of Kuala Yong, waiting for some...

by Lye Tuck-Po This is something that I tell students in my class on visual ethnography: shooting RAW vs shooting jpegs. "A RAW file is...

by Lye Tuck-Po 21/9/23 [This began as a 10-minute writing exercise, following a tip I learnt in college from Carolyn Bell, now retired]...

by Lye Tuck-Po 21/9/23 Crossover posting from my YouTube channel. People on this blog know me as a writer and a photographer. But you...

by Lye Tuck-Po 20 September 2023 This is a photo of my host mother Yi in Cambodia, photographed while she was working in her maize field...

I'm excited that Alice Rudge's new book (which is winging its way to me, so I haven't read it yet) is out: Sensing Others Voicing Batek...

by Lye Tuck-Po / 19 September 2023 In this blog, my intent was to describe Batek childcare. Except that it's rather boring. My writing of...

by Lye Tuck-Po / 18 September 2023 Excerpts: Neither the Batek’s way of life nor their children’s behaviour has changed radically....